Nigeria’s security architecture was designed to protect lives, defend national stability, and enforce the law through multiple specialised agencies. However, across the country, conflicts between these same agencies have increasingly become part of Nigeri...

Something is changing in Nigeria’s cities, and it is becoming harder to ignore. Across Nigerian cities, including Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Ibadan and other urban centres, children are increasingly becoming a regular feature at traffic intersections — moving be...

In a 1982 diary entry for West Africa magazine, Kole Omotoso described Nigeria as a country “consuming what we do not produce and producing what we do not consume.” He argued that genuine development required “the conquest and maintenance of our own natio...

An informal post-graduation retraining culture is currently rising across Nigeria. Faced with limited employment opportunities, young Nigerians, after graduating from university and other tertiary institutions, and the mandatory NYSC, now seek practical t...

Across agricultural regions in Nigeria, farmers are increasingly producing under difficult and uncertain conditions. In the maize-producing plains of Kano, rising input costs are pushing cultivation beyond the reach of many smallholders, while in the rice...

When the phrase “zombie apocalypse” first entered popular culture in the late 20th Century, it functioned primarily as a chilling metaphor for societies overwhelmed by social decay and the erosion of human agency. As severe drug epidemics later swept thro...

Public debate about Nigeria's future has grown increasingly crowded with competing prescriptions. Two of such remedies dominate the discourse: the demand for outright dissolution and the call for a Sovereign National Conference. Both are emotionally and p...

The public execution of 28-year-old Mene Ogidi in Effurun, Delta State on Sunday, 26th April 2026 serves as another shocking episode of police brutality in Nigeria. It looked like a movie. A man arrested, hands bound behind him, feet also tied up, several...